Life Between Walls....

KOTAGEDE. Life Between Walls
Text : Revianto Budi Santosa
Photography : Bambang Tri Atmojo
First Published by : PT. Gramedia Pustaka Utama 2007
Price : IDR 185,000 - with NG membercard IDR 166,500 :)

Being one of the oldest surviving Javanese towns, Kotagede embodies rich stories along its life. In its densely populated settlements many signs and traces accumulated in the past four hundred years collide with footprints of the sixteenth century princely conquest standing side by side with those of the twentieth century religious reformation. Bourgeois lifestyle and architecture lie adjacent to or even blended with those of the noble and religious elites. holy tombs and springs with strong smell of incense and flowers neighbor bustling and colorful market places. selling livestock and fabricated clothing. there is no easy word to describe this highly complex town. rather than reconstructing history, describing architecture or interpreting culture, this books explores, through pictures and words, some critical junctions between these three nuclei as they are inscribed in space, especially those contained and intertwined between walls of this town - its amazing and amusing urban settlement.

The log. since today is a red label date *hyahaha Johnnie Walker dong :D, I decided to spend first hours in the morning to just motionlessly drowning in a lazy mood of a bookshop. searching of nothing, having a rapid reader of some writings, enjoy the quietness, sitting in front of shelves 3015 with mind map, how to simplify your life and some more of pop publishings and etc, i was drowning in my solitude when that book KOTAGEDE. Life Between Walls is calling from the shelves 1006. read more